"The size of user mailboxes in all Exchange Online and Office 365 service plans is doubling. Beginning today, the current 25 GB of mailbox storage is increasing to 50 GB. With this increase even the most active email users don't have to…
If you've got some huge log files then opening them up in Notepad just isn't feasible, but Tail or Get-Content -Tail will help... We had a 100GB log file and we needed to figure out why it was growing so…
We look after a few charities, all of which need some Microsoft software at some point and they're very lucky that they get this at remarkable pricing, for example... Office 2013 Professional with Software Assurance is £20.00 Windows Server 2012…
We had a client on Office 365 where Outlook kept prompting for a password, anyone who's used Exchange Online or Office 365 has probably come across this at some point. We tried various fixes... Logging in to the portal and…
There are some interesting and exciting new features in Windows Server 2012 R2. I'd like to see the new "Work Folders" feature which essentially sounds like a corporate DropBox/SkyDrive enabling data synchronistion across devices with encryption and remote wipe facilities,…
We have a few clients on Office 365 all of which have been upgraded to the new version, which is being rolled out to everyone this year. One client asked us to remove the forwarding of email from one mailbox…
In between moving to our new larger premises I thought I'd find time to migrate some virtual machines from Citrix XenServer 5.6 to Microsoft Hyper-V 2012, lowering costs and improving performance, this turned out to be relatively painless. Step 1…
This problem has cropped up a few times recently. When using an iOS Device (iPhone/iPad etc) to connect to a Microsoft Exchange Server, sometimes the device will report an incorrect number of Unread Messages. The following instructions are to clear…
Ooooh this will be an interesting read http://blogs.technet.com/b/virtualization/archive/2013/04/01/multi-tenant-disaster-recover-solution-using-windows-server-2012.aspx This was one of the areas I was really looking forward to in Windows Server 2012 to enable low cost disaster recover for SMB clients. It will be interesting to see how…
In the days of tape backup it was easy to tell when a backup had completed because the tape could be configured to eject from the drive. A lot of our clients use a pool of USB backup drives which…